The climate here in the country _______; it rained almost every day.

In the last decade, Chicago public schools ________ teaching of Chinese to serve 12,000 students.

It is reported that many a new house ____ at present in the disaster area in Gansu Province.

 --- Liu Yi, do you miss your parents? I hear that you go back home once every month. ---Of course. You know this is the first time I_____ in the dormitory at school, far away from my hometown, Luoyang. 

Tom is the only one of the students who     a scholarship since last year.